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A fingertip-sized uranium pellet holds about as much energy as a ton of coal

By Everett Sloane

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Meta is powering a new Ohio AI campus with 16 small Oklo reactors, each rated 75 megawatts, stacking up to a 1.2-gigawatt nuclear-fed data center

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China’s Linglong One is set to start commercial operation in the first half of 2026, becoming the world’s first onshore small modular reactor to go live

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TAE Technologies’ Norman device hit hydrogen-boron fusion at commercially relevant energy ratios in January — a pathway with near-zero radioactive waste

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Commonwealth Fusion Systems installed the first of 18 magnets in its Sparc tokamak, the next-year demo unit aimed at burning-plasma physics

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The NRC’s proposed fusion framework regulates tritium handling and neutron-activation waste, skipping the emergency cooling rules fission reactors require

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China’s “artificial sun” pushed past a fusion density ceiling that physicists believed could not be crossed, holding plasma stable at extreme densities

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Germany’s Focused Energy raised $240 million to build a laser fusion plant on the grounds of the shuttered Biblis nuclear station

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The DOE just selected TVA and Holtec for $800 million in SMR awards — federal cash flowing to the first two American utilities racing to deploy commercial small reactors

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The NRC just approved NuScale’s uprated 77-megawatt small modular reactor design — only the second SMR ever cleared in the United States and the most powerful per module

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The Pentagon just signed an $77 million contract with L3Harris to sustain testing of Trident II D5 submarine-launched nuclear missiles — the backbone of U.S. sea-based deterrence

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China’s first commercial small modular reactor is set to start generating power this year — the country racing ahead of every Western SMR project on the schedule

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Ukrainian drones torched five Russian sites in one night — strikes hit Taganrog port, Yaroslavl fuel tanks, Armavir, Volgograd refinery, and the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

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NuScale just locked in a Tennessee Valley Authority path to 6 gigawatts of U.S. small modular reactors — the biggest SMR deployment plan in the country

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The Department of Energy just greenlit $94 million for eight companies racing to build America’s next small modular reactors — the biggest federal SMR push in a generation

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ITER’s 1,000-ton central solenoid — the magnet strong enough to lift an aircraft carrier — is now fully stacked inside the $22 billion fusion reactor in France

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The Department of Energy just handed out $94 million to eight companies building America’s next small modular reactors — the biggest federal SMR push in a generation

By Everett Sloane

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ITER’s 1,000-ton central solenoid — the magnet powerful enough to lift an aircraft carrier — just finished assembly inside the $22 billion fusion reactor in France

By Everett Sloane

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ITER’s 1,000-ton central solenoid — the magnet powerful enough to lift an aircraft carrier — just finished assembly inside the $22 billion fusion reactor in France

By Everett Sloane

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The Department of Energy just awarded TVA and Holtec $400 million each to build America’s next small modular reactors — the biggest federal push on SMRs in a generation

By Everett Sloane

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